If you go back far enough in chip cooling lore you’ll find the "orb" design to have been popularized by the good old ArctiCooler followed up by the core crushing power of the other orb designs that followed it. Thankfully…
Read more Themaltake MaxOrb EX CPU Cooler, bringing back the Orb
As with most technologies the more time passes the cheaper things tend to get, for some products that day can’t seem to come around soon enough but when the day finally arrives it’s about as sweet as any other for…
The big names in the cooling industry used to be the ones to go for when you needed to top performing products but, interestingly, many smaller manufacturers are coming up with designs that are just as effective and on the…
The excitement around Intel’s LGA 1156 has been well deserved mostly because it brings the sort of performance enjoyed by LGA 1336 users at a lower overall cost of entry, sometimes aiming a little lower on the performance scale brings…
Read more Intel Core i7 860, premium performance at a reasonable price
Heatsinks are a "good enough" cooling solution that can easily be overwhelmed by newer and hotter running chips so many enthusiasts choose to go with a watercooling setup in order to keep things in check and even that isn’t enough…
Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors have the sort of performance that make people take notice. It’s undisputed performance hasn’t been completely tested in the mid-range so TechSpot went about comparing the Intel Core i7 920 / 860, Core i5…
Read more Mid-range Quad Cores Compared, results not so clear cut
In order to properly cool off a system’s processor you’re going to need a whole heck of a lot of surface area and a proper amount of airflow in order to deal with the heat. There are of course the…
Read more Thermaltake SpinQ VT Cooler, cylindrically vertical
The general idea behind the Intel Core i5 was to bring the company’s high-end Core i7 performance down to the mid-range level and cut some costs along the way. Oddly enough the changes they’ve made and improvements they’ve added, most…
Intel’s Core i7 lineup isn’t only limited to the LGA1366 platform, oh no, it’s being brought into the LGA1156 fold along side the Core i5 lineup. The company’s Core i7 870 will be one of the first chips to be…
A processor’s Level 3 cache is a neat trick in order to improve a system’s performance. With more cores being piled on to processors a unified cache would be difficult to manage given that each core needs access to an…
Read more Intel Becton / Nehalem EX Sports Ring Bus, insane cache bandwidth
Heatsinks depend on quite a few tricks in order to get the best possible performance out of the materials at hand and when you’ve hit those limits you simply go a size or two bigger.Then again that sort of effort…
Read more Titan's TTC-NC05TZ/NPW "SKALLI", maximizing cooling with massive heatpipes
